David Streitfeld, New York Times; Anger as a Private Company Takes Over Libraries:
"Can a municipal service like a library hold so central a place that it should be entrusted to a profit-driven contractor only as a last resort — and maybe not even then?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/business/27libraries.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=anger%20libraries&st=cse
I am utterly against the idea of libraries being owned by for-profit entities. I did a stint working for a for-profit online education company, and it was absolutely miserable. "For profit" ALWAYS interferes with "education," and the very idea behind libraries as free community services, of knowledge being freely available to all, is antithetical to a for-profit mindset.
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